Changing of the guard
I posted a message to the internal mailing lists at MariaDB Corporation. I have departed (I resigned) the company, but definitely not the community. Thank you all for the privilege of serving the large...
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Percona Live Europe 2016 Schedule Now Live
This post reveals the full Percona Live Europe 2016 schedule for Amsterdam this October 3-5. The official The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2016 schedule is now live, and you can...
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Become a ClusterControl DBA: Adding Existing Databases and clusters (updated)
In our previous blog post we covered the deployment of four types of clustering/replication: MySQL Galera, MySQL master-slave replication, PostgreSQL replication set and MongoDB replication set. This...
View ArticleIntroducing MaxScale 2.0 Beta Release
Mon, 2016-08-15 20:11Michael WideniusI am happy to see MariaDB Corporation announcing a major new version of MariaDB MaxScale. MaxScale 2.0 Beta is now available here. MariaDB MaxScale is a database...
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Invitation to Join MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Beta!
Mon, 2016-08-15 20:22Dipti JoshiToday, MariaDB MaxScale, the database proxy for MariaDB, is reaching its next major milestone – the availability of MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Beta software release. Beta is...
View ArticleApplying the Business Source Licensing (BSL)
I believe that Open Source is one of the best ways to develop software. However, as I have written in blogs before, the Open Source model presents challenges to creating a software company that has the...
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Our Talks & Tutorials at Percona Live Amsterdam
This year’s Percona Live Conference in Amsterdam is drawing closer and we’re looking forward to presenting our talks and tutorials there; and to the opportunity to discuss these topics directly with...
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I’m Colin Charles, and I’m here to evangelize open source databases!
Let me introduce myself, I’m Colin Charles. Percona turns ten years old this year. To me, there is no better time to join the company as the Chief Evangelist in the CTO office. I’ve been in the MySQL...
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Percona Toolkit 2.2.19 is now available
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.19. Released August 16, 2016. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools that perform a variety of MySQL...
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Webinar Thursday 8/18: Preventing and Resolving MySQL Downtime
Join Percona’s Jervin Real for a webinar on Thursday August 18, 2016 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) on Preventing and Resolving MySQL Downtime. Preventing MySQL downtime and emergencies is difficult. Often...
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Tracker: Ingesting MySQL data at scale - Part 2
In Part 1 we discussed our existing architecture for ingesting MySQL called Tracker, including its wins, challenges and an outline of the new architecture with a focus on the Hadoop side. Here we’ll...
View ArticleWhat’s next
I received an overwhelming number of comments when I said I was leaving MariaDB Corporation. Thank you – it is really nice to be appreciated. I haven’t left the MySQL ecosystem. In fact, I’ve joined...
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Context aware MySQL pools via HAProxy
At GitHub we use MySQL as our main datastore. While repository data lies in git, metadata is stored in MySQL. This includes Issues, Pull Requests, Comments etc. We also auth against MySQL via a custom...
View ArticleTrying out MySQL in Docker Swarm Mode
Orchestration tools are often used when scaling out an application stack. In a Docker environment, tools like Kubernetes, Mesos and Docker Swarm have typically been used for this purpose. Docker has...
View ArticleMariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.51 and Connector/J 1.5.1 now available
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.51 Stable (GA), and MariaDB Connector/J 1.5.1 Release Candidate (RC). See the release notes and...
View ArticleBasically Shitty License
Monty announced that he has created a new non-open source license called the "Business Source License" or BSL. I think it should have a different name...You see, Monty has fundamentally crafted a...
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How Apache Spark makes your slow MySQL queries 10x faster (or more)
In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to improve the performance of slow MySQL queries using Apache Spark. Introduction In my previous blog post, I wrote about using Apache Spark with MySQL for data...
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ClusterControl Tips & Tricks - Transparent Database Failover for your...
ClusterControl is a great tool to deploy and manage databases clusters - if you are into MySQL, you can easily deploy clusters based on both traditional MySQL master-slave replication, Galera Cluster...
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MySQL Document Store: unstructured data, unstructured search
Storing documents is convenient: no need to define a schema up-front, no downtime for schema changes, no normalization, no slow joins – true or not, you name it. But what about search if you do not...
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TokuDB/PerconaFT fragmented data file performance improvments
In this blog post, we’ll discuss how we’ve improved TokuDB and PerconaFT fragmented data file performance. Through our internal benchmarking and some user reports, we have found that with long term...
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